2014 - 2015

MESAAS Department Colloquium
September 11, 2014, 4:10pm. 208 Knox Hall
Speaker: Gil Anidjar; Departments of Religion and MESAAS
“Jesus and Monotheism”

MESAAS Department Colloquium
October 30, 2014, 4:10pm. 208 Knox Hall
Speaker: Katharina Ivanyi; Assistant Professor, Department of Religion
“The Economics of Piety Birgivī on wastefulness, the cash waaf and Ottoman land tenure and taxation”

MESAAS Department Colloquium
November 20, 2014, 4:10pm. 208 Knox Hall
Speaker: Avinoam Shalem; Riggio Professor for the Arts of Islam,
Departments of Art History and Archaeology
“Clothing the Sacred House of the Ka’ba in Mecca”

MESAAS Department Colloquium
January 29, 2015, 4:10pm. 208 Knox Hall
Speaker: Omar Imseeh Tesdell; Abu-Lughod Fellow, Center for Palestine Studies
“Situating Settlement: Terrains of Arid Agriculture in Palestine and North America”

MESAAS Department Colloquium
February 19, 2015, 4:10pm. 208 Knox Hall
Speaker: Khaled Fahmy; Department of MESAAS
“Translating Bicaht and Lavoisier into Arabic”

MESAAS Department Colloquium
March 12, 2015, 4:10pm. 208 Knox Hall
Speaker: Moneera Al-Ghadeer; Department of MESAAS
"Cannibalizing Iraq"

2014 - 2015

MESAAS organizes or co-sponsors the following regular events:

Three regional institutes are housed alongside MESAAS in Knox Hall and frequently organize events in collaboration with the department:

Members of the MESAAS faculty are also affiliated with the following institutes and centers at Columbia, all of which organize seminars and conferences:

University Seminars